Starting control for coin counting machines



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Patented Mar. 30, 1948 STARTING CQNTROL FOR COIN COUNTING MACHINES Earl W. Quirk andArnold R. Buchholz, Watertown, Wis.,

assignors to Brandt Automatic Cashier Company, Watertown, Wis., a. corpora- .tion of Wisconsin Application Juiy'2'8, 194.5, SerialNo. 607,558

4 Claims.

The invention relates. to coin counting machines.

Coin counting machines. are usually driven by a continuously running electric motor and a releasable driving connection is interposed between the motor and the coin counting mechanism which is established by means controlled by the operator to start the operation of the machine and released when the desired count of coins have been discharged from the machine. These machines are used for filling tubular containers with the desired number of coins and include a coin discharge tube. The count starting lever has usually been a hand lever whichv is spaced from the discharge tube and has to be operated by a separate. operation from that required to position or hold the coin receiving container into or in coin receiving position at the end of the coin discharge tube and thus necessitates the use of both hands of. the operator. The object of the present inventionis to provide an electromagnetically operated means for operating the starting lever through a slight movement of the coin discharge tube by the same hand of the operator that inserts the coin receiving contain-er into position at the lower end of the discharge tube.

The invention further consists in the several features. hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1. is a plan view of a coin counting machine embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a detailed vertical sectional View taken on the. line 2.-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a detailed horizontal sectional view taken on the linev 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a front elevation view of the machine, parts being broken away and parts being shown in section;

Fig. 5. isv a detailed horizontal sectional view taken on the, line 5 5. of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a wiring diagram of the electrical units.

The coin counting machine includes a casing having a base 1,. sides 8., and a top. 9. A coin carrier I is rotatably mounted on a. vertically disposed shaft Ii suitably journalled in a hearing frame ii secured tov the top and side of the casing and carrying a skew gear i2 meshing with a similar gear i3 on an angularly disposed shaft I 4 projecting. through one side of the casing and carrying a pulley I connected by a belt l'fi with the pulley H. on the drive shaft l8 of an electric motor I9 disposed within the rear portion of the casing. Coins are charged into the hopper formed by the carrier [0 and. a fence or Wall 2!? which at 55 one point is open toxpermit the discharge of coins and at this open-ing includes an adjustable gate. 2.]: which determines the diameter of. the coin. that may be released from the; carrier in into a discharge passage 22. cured in position by a clamping; lever it. The gate 2 I also provides adjustable spaces at theperiphery of the carrier adjacent the passagen into which the coins are thrown by the. rapid rotation. of the carrier and along. which they move into the entrance. of the passage 22. Associated with the passage '22 is a rubber faced. feed wheel- 2% which is mounted sothat its periphery is spaced a slight distance from the. bottom of the passage 22 so as to. engage the coins-as they are discharged and carry them past a counter drive wheel 24.

The counter drive wheel 2.4.-is.mounted.on avertically disposed shaft 2.5 carrying: a. bevel gear 2% meshing. with a bevel gear'zl on a drive shaft 2 8. fora counter 29.

The counting mechanism includes means for setting it to count coins of .diflerent denominations, such as pennies, nickels,. dimes,. quarters, half dollars, and dollars, including a manually adjustable lever 39 to gauge the thickness of the: coins and means for adjusting the counter 29 to: stop the feed of the coins after a predetermined number of revolutions thereof and including: a manually settable lever 3|. For example, the lever 3| may beset so that the machine deliversv 1D, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, or 50- coins ofany denomination before the drive of the coin feed and counter operating. wheel 23 isstopped.

The feed wheel 23v is. mountedon a horizontally disposed shaft 32 journalled in bearings .33, the front one of which is vertically adjustable to change the height. of the wheel relative to the bottom of the-passage. 22., and has atoothedclutch disk 34. slidably keyed thereon bya. pin. 35. working.

in a slot. 35' and normally urged by a. spring .35

into engagement. with. the toothed clutch. face: 31 formed on a pulley 38.1oose on the. shaft 32 and connected by a belt 3.9 with a. pulley Ml on the shaft. I4. Thus. the pulley 38 is continuously driven by the motor l9 and-drives. the shaftv 32 when the clutch disk 34 is engaged with the. clutch face 3.1.. The counting mechanismis .openatively connected. to. a clutch shifting, lever 41" pivotally 2 mounted at 42V on the, frameof the machine. by

a link 43 and a lever member 44. which is. operated by the counting Inechanism..at. the end of. the count toshift and. hold the clutch. disk 3.4 in a released position. The details of the counting. mechanism and. its connection. with. the member The gate is adiustab-ly se- 44 and the other parts heretofore referred to have been previously shown and described in detail in the copending application for patent of Arnold R. Buchholz and Walter A. Bargang, for Coin counting machine, Serial No. 376,392, filed Janary 28, 1941, now Patent No. 2,378,828, and as the disclosures in said application are now in use and form a part of the prior art, further' detailed description thereof will not be given here. Also in said application a count starting lever 45 pivotally mounted at 46 is operatively con- 7 nected with the clutch hold out lever member 4 4 so that said lever may be released by the swinging of the lever 45 against the pull of a spring 41 so as to permit the spring 36 to engage the clutch.

It will thus be noted that this application starts as its basis with the coin counting machine having a motor driven coin feeding wheel, which wheel is adapted to be connected to its source of power drive through a releaseable drive connection and that the counting mechanism acts through member 44, link 43, and lever 4| to release the clutch disk 34 against the action of the spring 36 after the counter 29 has been operated a predetermined number of times and that the clutch disk 34 is permitted to engage with its companion clutch member 31 under the action of'the spring 36 on the operation of the count starting lever 45 which through mechanism shown in said application acts to release the lever member 44 from holding engagement with the link' 43. The subject matter of -the present invention is to provide a control supplemental to that of the count starting lever 45 and operable through the same to start the operation of the machine.

The discharge passage 22 beyond'the wheel 23 is downwardly inclined as shown at 48 to discharge the counted coins into a tube section 49 which has a coin deflector member 59 projecting above the 'outlet'end of the passage 22. A discharge tube 5|, has its upper end removably secured in the counter bored end 52 of the section 49 by a detent 53 loosely engaging in an opening 54 in the tube 5| and held therein by a spring 55 but removable therefrom by the outward movement of said'detent by the operator with the aid of a stop'knob 56 on said detent. The loose connection permits a limited; oscillatory movement of the tube 5| relative to its supporting tube section'49; and this movement is used to operate a switch 51 in an electrical circuit including a solenoid 5 8. Only a very slight angular movement of the tube 5| isneeded to operate the switch 51 so that the control by the tube is very sensitive.

'61 ofsaid plunger and a sleeve 68 in threaded en agement with the outer end of the bore 65. The bore 55 extends down to the upper end of the counterbore 52, so that the head of the plunger 54 may be engaged by the top of the tube 5| and moved thereby when said tube 5| is swung from its full line position to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2, and this movement is sufficient to cause the plunger to move the lever 59 toward the right as viewed in Fig.2 so as to close th contacts of the switch 51 and energize the electro-magnet or solenoid 58 causing it to pull down on the plunger 69 associated with it.

The plunger 69 is connected by a link 10, with one arm of a bell crank lever pivotally mounted at 12 on the frame part 6|, the other arm of said lever projecting up through and engaging a wall of a slot 13 in a link 14 pivotally connected by a pin 15 to the count starting lever 45 and slidably guided by a headed pin 16 mounted in a slot 11 of said link. With this arrangement downward movement of the plunger 69 by the solenoid 58 swings the lever ll counterclockwise to cause its movement of the link 14 toward the left as viewed in Fig. 1 and its consequent swinging of the lever 45 counterclockwise to release the member 44 from the link 43 as described in said application, so that the spring 36 may throw in the clutch for the counter driveand coin feed wheel 23, so that the counted'coins may be delivered into the tube 5|. It will be understood that tubes 5| with different internal bore diameters are provided for handling the different denominations of coins. V

The tube 5| has its delivery end 18 flared to readily receive the open end of a coin receiving tube 19, and as the operator inserts the end of I of the winding for the solenoid 58, the terminal of said winding being connected by a conductor to the other supply line. V V V y We desire it to be understood that this invention is not to be limited to any particular form or arrangement of parts except in so far as suc limitations are included in the claims. 7 7

What we claim as our invention is:

1. In a coin counting machine in which a driven coin feeding wheel is rendered inoperative by the counting mechanism at the termination of a predetermined count and rendered operative by the operation of a starting control member, said coin feeding wheel being associated with a coin discharge passage, the combination of 'a coin discharge tube forminga continuation of 7 said discharge passage and supported forlimited movement, electromagnetically operated means for operating said count starting control member, and control means for said electromagnetically operated means operable by the operators movement of said discharge tube as when a coin receiving tubeis positioned to receive the counted coins from said discharge tube.

2. In a coin counting machine in which a driven coin feeding'wheel is rendered inoperative. by the counting mechanism at the termination of a predetermined countand rendered operative by the operation of a starting control member, said coin feeding wheel being associated with a coin discharge passage, the combination of a coin discharge tube forming a continuation of said discharge passage, means for operating said count starting control member including an electromagnet, means for energizing said mag net including a switch, and means operatively connected to said discharge tube for operating said switch on the movement of said discharge tube as when the upper end of a coin receiving tube is positioned by the operator in the lower end of said discharge tube.

3. In a coin counting machine in which a driven coin feeding Wheel is rendered inoperative by the counting mechanism at the termination of a predetermined count and rendered operative by the operation of a starting control member, said coin feeding wheel being associated with a coin discharge passage, the combination of a coin discharge tube forming a continuation of said discharge passage and mounted at the lower end thereof for limited oscillatory movement, means for operating said count starting control member including an electromagnet, means for energizing said magnet including a switch, and means for operating said switch including a member movably mounted at the lower end of said discharge passage and engageable with said discharge tube to be operated thereby when said tube is oscillated.

4. In a coin counting machine in which a driven coin feeding wheel is rendered inoperative by the countin mechanism at the termination of a predetermined count and rendered operative by the operation of a starting control member, said coin feeding wheel being associated with a coin discharge passage, the combination of a coin discharge tube forming a continuation of said discharge passage and mounted at the lower end thereof for limited oscillatory movement, means for operating said count starting control member including an electromagnet, means for energizing said magnet including a switch, and means for operating said switch including a lever and a spring returned plunger mounted in the lower end of said discharge passage and engaging the upper end of said discharge tube to be operated thereby.

EARL W. QUIRK.

ARNOLD R. BUCHHOLZ.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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